ALBANY – Cruises are more about hauling passengers from place to place than about serving up plentiful food and shipboard entertainment, a New York state tax hearing officer has determined.
The administrative law judge agreed with Celebrity Cruises and its parent company, Royal Caribbean, that it should pay the taxes assessed by New York on transportation and power transmission companies instead of the higher charges the state imposes on businesses whose chief purpose is entertainment.
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